By the time Monday morning rolls around, the vast Hollywood wasteland that is the month of January will be but a memory. Before that moment arrives, however, two more derisible movies are set to unspool in theaters. As we do every Friday, here’s a handy guide to the new releases.
Edge of Darkness
What’s the Read More
Edge of Darkness
Running time 117 minutes
Written by William Monahan
and Andrew Bovell
Directed by Martin Campbell
Starring Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone,
Bojana Novakovic, Danny Huston, Denis O’Hare
For obvious reasons—some of them having to do with controversial offscreen behavior and a career in search of damage control—Mel Gibson desperately needs Read More
It’s 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you’ve already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we’re just like you: single.
Need a Read More
Not only did Heath Ledger’s masseuse call Mary-Kate Olsen before calling 911, she spent a full nine minutes dialing the actress multiple times. From Ledger’s cell phone. [NYT]
Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger had a falling out over Ledger’s role in Brokeback Mountain—“The role apparently ran counter to Gibson’s morality,” sources say. [Rush Read More
The horror of having to evacuate homes during Malibu’s biggest wildfire in recent history is not being helped by fallen pop star Britney Spears’ recent custody troubles.
“Basically, all the paparazzi are still out there trying to get their Britney shot,” said one resident of the beachy burg. “They don’t even Read More
Last week, the Scottish National Party became the largest party—by one seat—in the Scottish Parliamentary election.
Credit for this development belongs, in no small part, to Mel Gibson—and to Braveheart.
Twelve years ago, when the epic adventure movie was first released, Scotland was a nation in name only. It was part of Great Read More
Following Tony Judt’s lecture two weeks back, NYU had a wine-and-cheese where I ran into a leftish Jewish journalist who felt guilty over Judt’s criticisms of the Jewish state. I ought to write about what is going on in Palestine, she said, but I don’t. It’s complicated, and you invite storms of invective by Read More
In the first scene of Mel Gibson’s boring, affected, expensive, gruesomely violent and historically inaccurate curio Apocalypto, a humongous tapir (like a wild boar) charges from the jungle and attacks a peaceful tribe of hunters, who slaughter the animal and eat its testicles. For the next 130 minutes, they search for a better meal. Wouldn’t Read More
In the first scene of Mel Gibson’s boring, affected, expensive, gruesomely violent and historically inaccurate curio Apocalypto, a humongous tapir (like a wild boar) charges from the jungle and attacks a peaceful tribe of hunters, who slaughter the animal and eat its testicles. For the next 130 minutes, they search for a better meal. Wouldn’t Read More
On the evening of Wednesday, March 23, the members of the independent film world gathered to toast the New York premiere of Rebecca Miller’s The Ballad of Jack and Rose were positively giddy. Bob Berney had just parlayed the distribution arm of Newmarket Films into a new joint venture with HBO and New Line-creating a Read More
